Summary-line: 31-Jan n, wilcox@cis.ohio-state. #immune: various comments Return-Path: Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 15:41:35 pst From: cnorman (Cynthia Norman) To: cnorman, wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu, luna@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, anasaz!john@asuvax.eas.asu.edu, dwyer@nosc.mil, jgautier@ads.com, b-davis@cai.utah.edu, richter@triton.unm.edu, hxkpy@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu, botteron@bu-it.bu.edu, rollo@xylogics.com, proud@ihlpy.att.com, bill@picard.att.com, jsparkes@bnr.ca, island!green@uunet.uu.net, ann@snow-white.merit-tech.com, iex!neptune.iex.com!bert@uunet.uu.net, siang@biochem.umass.edu, smalley@pilot.njin.net, king@reasoning.com, mnetor!perle!kevin@cs.toronto.edu, afc@shibaya.lonestar.org, mark.ochsankehl@p2.f175.n120.z1.fidonet.org, pjz@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu, ardyk@tc.fluke.com, cyn@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu, ogicse!sequent!roseal@ucsd.edu, paulxxxx@portia.stanford.edu, andrea@sdd.hp.com, mvac23!thomas@udel.edu, ames!claris!netcom!shelamer@ucsd.edu, nick@icad.com, marks@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov, schillin@scl.cwru.edu, 880039a@acadiau.ca, lbrueck@wpi.wpi.edu Subject: immune: various comments Reply-To: cnorman@ucsd.edu *** EOOH *** Return-Path: Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 15:41:35 pst From: cnorman (Cynthia Norman) To: cnorman, wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu, luna@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, anasaz!john@asuvax.eas.asu.edu, dwyer@nosc.mil, jgautier@ads.com, b-davis@cai.utah.edu, richter@triton.unm.edu, hxkpy@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu, botteron@bu-it.bu.edu, rollo@xylogics.com, proud@ihlpy.att.com, bill@picard.att.com, jsparkes@bnr.ca, island!green@uunet.uu.net, ann@snow-white.merit-tech.com, iex!neptune.iex.com!bert@uunet.uu.net, siang@biochem.umass.edu, smalley@pilot.njin.net, king@reasoning.com, mnetor!perle!kevin@cs.toronto.edu, afc@shibaya.lonestar.org, mark.ochsankehl@p2.f175.n120.z1.fidonet.org, pjz@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu, ardyk@tc.fluke.com, cyn@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu, ogicse!sequent!roseal@ucsd.edu, paulxxxx@portia.stanford.edu, andrea@sdd.hp.com, mvac23!thomas@udel.edu, ames!claris!netcom!shelamer@ucsd.edu, nick@icad.com, marks@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov, schillin@scl.cwru.edu, 880039a@acadiau.ca, lbrueck@wpi.wpi.edu Subject: immune: various comments Reply-To: cnorman@ucsd.edu Hi, haven't heard from people in a while :-( Here's what's happening with the list. The list will become permanant any time now (as soon as my dept's comp person has a chance to take the request to the system administrator). It will be called "immune" (since I had no objections to the name nor any others proposed). You will be able to post by sending mail to immune@weber.ucsd.edu or immune@ucsd.edu (or use ucsd as a bitnet site). Any list business should go directly to me (cnorman@ucsd.edu). We have 36 members (we lost two). When the list is permanant, I will put another notice to usenet inviting others to join. I will also register the list with the appropriate usenet list list-maintainers. Anyone wishing to propose a usenet group to discuss immune issues, has my blessing (and vote). That will not affect the status of this list. -------------------- So, let's have some information talk. . . Most of the people on the list haven't sent any messages. This is, of course, your right and you are welcome to sit back and listen. But I do encourage you to write. One of the most important things I get from this list (and other converstations) is knowing that there are other people with the same crazy problems. What to do about those problems is the next step. In other words, it's no fun if this list is mostly me (and one or two others) talking to my(our)self(ves). I would like to hear more from others with dyslexia and dysgraphia. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I don't have ordinary dys*ias. I don't fit prototypical patterns--I even surprise doctors. My symptoms though are very neurological. Has anyone else found this; that it's not just learning disabilities, but strange things that are best described by calling them learning disabilities? For me, I have two strange things about it: 1) the symptoms come and go (though I ALWAYS have some underlying LD), usually in response to allergies or my blood sugar level. I know many of you have this too (as opposed to becoming dyslexic at age N at the same time as other symptoms appeared). Sometimes I can't write a sentance without making an error (like now--thank god for the delete button). Other times I only make occainsional errors. 2) the symptoms themselves are strange. I have symptoms one might find in a stroke victim, even though I've been dyslexic all my life. I have some right-side neglect (left-side neglect is rare (but not unusual in strokes); right-side neglect is almost unheard of in anyone). My spelling errors aren't just the usual b for d for p and nad for and (or even bllod for blood). I also substitute one function word for another (as for the), and one suffix (but never prefix) for another (sometimes real words: walking for walked; sometimes non-words: fewing for fewer--I do this whether I'm writing the word from memory or copying it). Other common mistakes (alk for ake, as in mistake/mistalk): sometime for something (or *thing); you for who. Etc. I also have better long-term memory than short-term (sounds better than it is--it means when I recall something for a test (written words, pictures, spoken information, etc), I do better after 10 minutes than I do after 1 minute. Any comments? Am I just a weird person? :-) Or do allergy-induced LD's tend to be out-of-the-ordinary? ---------- Responses to old messages and the beginning of new messages are strongly encouraged. Send postings directly to me with a message stating you want it sent to the entire list (don't reply to the long list of names (unless you want to send mail to someone indivually)). Cyndi cnorman@ucsd.edu